How Much Money YouTubers Make in Reality?

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With the rapid growth of the video blogging industry, many people are enticed to try it. In fact, a handful of people are ready to take video blogging or “vlogging” to a whole new level. Other than the fact that YouTube is truly one of the platforms that can make you a lot of money, it can give you exposure to different things and streams of income as well.

But hey, we’re not here for that, what we’ll be discussing is more important, more relevant. If you’re one of the people curious as to how YouTubers make money, this post is perfect for you.

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How does YouTube make us money?

If you are still doubting that YouTube can give people a decent amount of income, this post is not for you. YouTube is primarily one of the fastest growing and developing platforms right now.

So if you’re skeptical about how this can provide a living to some people, you better stop thinking about it as a scam. In fact, many Filipinos have started in the YouTube industry and are now receiving fruitful results of their hard work.

To start off, YouTube, in its sense, is a marketing kind of website. Since there millions, if not billions of views per day, businesses and companies think of it as a good platform to market their products and services.

The following things are where YouTube makes money off:

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  1. Ad Revenue
  2. Sponsorship
  3. Affiliate Links
  4. Donations
  5. Merchandise

Below Ad Revenue, those are the things YouTubers make money off after getting famous. But it all starts at the bottom – to just Ad Revenue or Google AdSense.

How much money can YouTubers earn per video?

Some YouTubers are currently on this topic with millions of views. This just goes to show that there are tons of people interested in starting their own channels. Unfortunately, it cannot be weighed on how much a YouTuber earns “per view.” It’s more like of per thousands to hundreds of thousands of views; that’s where it’ll start.

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One YouTuber shared his opinion on this. In fact, based on his experience, he said that the amount of money you can make for a video will depend on:

  1. How much views it got
  2. How many ads the video contained
  3. Where the people who watched the video was geographically

How much views it got

According to him, the value of money factors in how much views a single video got. In one of his videos with a million views, he shared that he was able to gather up $700+. This means that it’s around P35,000+.

How many ads the video contained

Have you ever come across a video that had too many ads? Well if that video had tons of views and ads, it probably made a lot of money. As you can remember, ads are the pillars of YouTube earnings.

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So the amount of ads you have in one video directly translates to the value you’ll receive. This is also why some YouTubers make it a point that their video length is longer than ten (10) or fifteen (15) minutes.

Where the people were geographically

The same vlogger shared another video he uploaded which had 2 million views. Basing it on the first video, this should be somewhere around $1,500, right? But no, that video that scraped up 2 million views had a value of just $900+.


The reason for this is because the audience of the first video (1 mil views $700+ ) were mainly abroad. The second video, which had 2 mil views with $900+, his audience were mainly Filipinos.

So it’s not just about how many views and how many ads there are in a video. Aspiring YouTubers also have to factor in their audience. If you have audience around the world like PewDiePie, then you won’t have to think about this that much.

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Generally, here are some of the questions you’re begging to have answered:

  1. How much money YouTubers make per view:
    • Some sources report that YouTubers earn somewhere about $0.03 to $0.1 per view.
  2. Every 100 views:
    • If we were to take the same formula, it’s going to be somewhere around $3 to $10. But of course, it’s going to depend based on the factors we discussed.
  3. Per video:
    • Again, this is relative. But for the sake of knowing, if a video had somewhere around 1 million views, a YouTuber can earn somewhere around $1,000 to $3,000.00.


When can YouTube start to pay me?

In technicality, YouTube will start to monetize your account if you reach a balance of $100. This translates to somewhat a thousand or so views. But of course, if you’re new to YouTube, don’t expect that things will go your way.

T-Series, the YouTube channel with the most number of subscribers who has about 110 million, is considered to be one of the highest-paid YouTubers in our time. In terms of Google AdSense, though, we can assume that he’s cashing out tens of thousands per month.

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Generally speaking, don’t expect to be paid anything with your channel’s early days. Try to at least work your way up to reach the million mark. From there, YouTubers find it easy to navigate.

Companies will start contacting you for sponsorship, different brands will be wanting to work with you, etc. It all starts when you hit the million mark.

I want to start a YouTube channel, what advice can you give me?

In YouTube, content is what most people look at. The quality of the content, how well-thought the content is, and so forth. But today, based on statistics, many people are intrigued and curious to watch the following niches:

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  • Life Hacks
  • Funny Videos
  • Toy Reviews
  • Food Reviews
  • Street Food Reviews
  • Daily Video Blogs (Vlogs)
  • Gaming Videos
  • Modern Primitive Technology
  • Tutorials and “how-to’s”
  • Top “X” lists

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According to statistics, those types of videos are the ones most watched by people who are on YouTube.

Don’t feel sad and lonely when you create a channel and you don’t get thousands of views instantly. Similar to any type of job or business, you’d have to start somewhere small. PewDiePie, one of the most famous YouTubers who actually was the first single person to earn 100 million subscribers even had to start somewhere small.

PewDiePie was known to be one of the funniest people on YouTube. He was and still is known to upload Minecraft funny games.


Now, some YouTubers thought that PewDiePie would make great content. These YouTubers thought that interviewing some of PewDiePie’s earlier fans would make a great topic. Yes, that’s how famous PewDiePie is now.

So if you’ve got the hunch that this is what you love to do. Don’t hesitate to start. If you love doing what you’re doing now and if you think that it’s worth sharing with other people, why not go ahead and do so? That’s actually how much money YouTubers make in reality; you’ll definitely love it when it becomes fruitful.

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